Rotate your AWS Secrets Manager secrets

Rotation is the process of periodically updating a secret. When you rotate a secret, you update the credentials in both the secret and the database or service. In Secrets Manager, you can set up automatic rotation for your secrets. Applications that retrieve the secret from Secrets Manager automatically get the new credentials after rotation.

To turn on automatic rotation, you need administrator permissions. See Secrets Manager administrator permissions.

Topics

• Rotation strategies
• Automatically rotate an Amazon RDS, Amazon DocumentDB, or Amazon Redshift secret
• Automatically rotate another type of secret
• Rotate a secret immediately
• How rotation works
• Network access for the rotation function
• Permissions for the Lambda rotation function
• Customize a Lambda rotation function for Secrets Manager
• Secrets Manager rotation function templates